How-To On Ajax Code To Show Movies and Slide Shows

An anonymous reader writes "Sites like Flikr and YouTube show just the tip of the full potential for media on the Web. An IBM DeveloperWorks article provides some easy implementations of video and image browsing that you can use in your own project. Learn how to combine media with technologies such as PHP and Ajax to create a compelling experience. All Sample code is made available, and if you're into Mashups the site's Mashup resource space should have everything you need to create a Mashup of your own."

Putting things in prospective

[edxwelch]

For those of you that think that Ajax is the new next generation platform, let's just things in prospective.
Ajax is one single function: XMLHttpRequest, a extension to the browser DOM invented by MS. In other words its a propierty hack on the browser API, nothing more.

Re:Putting things in prospective

[merreborn]

Ajax is one single function: XMLHttpRequest, a extension to the browser DOM invented by MS. In other words its a propierty hack on the browser API, nothing more.

"proprietary hack"? Not for long:

http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ [w3.org]

two words

[Hooya]

apples and oranges.

it might surprise you that when you're using C# for creating these interactive web pages, that it's just acting as a javascript 'translator' in the sense that you do end up creating and sending javascript to the the client browser. before you dismiss javascript as bloated and insecure, and attribute all the supha cool interactivity to .NET, you may want to check the color of the cool aid.

and never, ever, suggest JSP or C# as a replacement for javascript when talking about client (browser) programmability. might help in getting people to take you seriously.